SPDL Note:We have webbed
both Hubbard’s original
Policy Letter “Battle Tactics” of February 16, 1969 and the
reissued version of September 24, 1987 in their entirety for
purposes of comparison by students and scholars, as proof of
Scientology as a hate group at war with good people for over
thirty-four years, and as a warning to everyone of the cult’s
malevolent intent. The two documents show a categorical continuity
between the nature and actions Hubbard postulated for Scientology
and Scientologists during his Guardian Office period and the nature
and actions Miscavige requires of the cultists in this, his RTC-OSA
era.

We believe that the organized beastification of good people is a
crime against humanity. We believe that the obliteration of people,
which “Battle Tactics” clearly orders, is impossible without
violence, indeed without murder. The order to get public opinion “in
a frenzy of hate against the enemy” -- by which Hubbard, Miscavige
and Scientologists mean hate against the good people who oppose
their criminality -- demonstrates beyond any doubt that Scientology
is a hate group. This document states emphatically that
Scientologists are to consider themselves at war with the good
people they make their “enemies, ” and are to employ battle tactics
in all dealings with these good people.

We believe that the good people who are the Scientologists’
targets for hate, beastification, war and obliteration have an
absolute right to know the information contained in this document,
and that such knowledge cannot be denied them by Scientology’s
application of commercial copyright law.

We believe that the safety and security of the general public
necessitate this document’s exposure and broad dissemination.

We believe that anyone considering becoming involved with the
Scientology cult as a customer, employee or agent has a right to
know that he or she is becoming involved with a hate group at war
with good people, and should think very seriously about the
consequences of any involvement.

We believe that all Scientologists have a right to know that they
are being whipped into a frenzy of hatred by their cult’s leaders,
that whether they have known it or not they are at war with good
people, and that their labor supports, and their fees buy, the
beastification and obliteration of those good people.

Finally, we believe that this document must be made universally
available so that government and law enforcement officials can no
longer pretend that they do not know what evil Scientology intends
toward the citizens that government and law enforcement are sworn to
protect, and so these officials will be denied the defense of
ignorance when this criminal cult executes its final obliteration
solution.

(This is a defense paper on material developed after 18
years of ceaseless attack by a foreign enemy. Nothing in this paper
advocates physical violence or invites the physical destruction of
persons.)

In
these days of "cold war" when actual warfare is impossible due to
atomic weapons, the warfare is waged in the press and public in the
form of ideas.

If
you uniformly apply the tactics and strategy of battle to the rows
we get into, press or legal or public confrontation, you will
win.

The enemy uses "groups" and meetings of groups like one
would use squads.

If
we and they are considered as two hostile and opposing nations at
war, then a huge array of tactics and strategy become visible.

One parallels in the field of thought what is used and done
in the field of battle in other ages.

You don't have to know too much about the tactics and
strategy of warfare to apply this but it helps.

The end product of war, according to Clausewitz, the authority on
it, is (condensed) "to bring about a more amenable frame of mind on
the part of the enemy."

But there are also wars of attrition. We are engaged in
one where total destruction of us has been the enemy's aim for, at
this writing, 19 years. This is barbarian warfare, thus the enemy
must have had very positive fears and terrors about us. Since he
fought for total attrition. In this case it is not safe to hope for
any half-way win. We must
ourselves fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So
never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and
obliterate him.

It is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain, in
your own subject area. It is not good to fight in the territory of
allies. Fight battles wherever possible only on enemy terrain, in
and about his subject and his people, not ours. You can gauge
your relative success by this. When all your battles are fought on
his terrain, you are winning.

A good general expends the maximum of enemy troops and the minimum
of his own. He makes the war costly to the enemy, not to
himself.

Copyright (c) 1969 by L. Ron
Hubbard.All Rights Reserved.

HCO PL 16.2.69 IIReiss.
24.9.87

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One cuts off enemy
communications, funds, connections. He deprives the enemy of
political advantages, connections and power. He takes over enemy
territory. He raids and harasses. All on a thought plane - press,
public opinion, governments, etc.

Seeing it as a battle, one can apply battle tactics to
thought actions.

Intelligence identifies targets
and finds out enemy plans and purposes, enemy connections,
dispositions, etc.It is fatal to attack a wrong enemy. But it is
good tactics to make the enemy attack wrong targets or persons
himself.

Good intelligence pinpoints who when where what.

Good PRO plans an action and operations fights the
battle.

Legal is a slow if often final battle arena. It
eventually comes down to legal in the end. If intelligence and PRO
have done well, then legal gets an easy win.

You can win a battle even without legal and by PRO
alone. You intend to win it without legal wherever possible.

The prize is "public
opinion" where press is concerned. The only safe public opinion to
head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of hate against the
enemy. This means standard wartime propaganda is what one is doing,
complete with atrocity, war crimes trials, the lot. Know the mores
of your public opinion, what they hate. That's the enemy. What they
love. That's you.

You preserve the image
or increase it of your own troops and degrade the image of the enemy
to beast level.

Always be ready to parley but watch for tricks. Don't
give the enemy breathing space.

Capture and use his
comm lines. A press magnate on your side is a big win.

You have in one of these publicity wars all the factors of modern
wars complete with artillery, cavalry, infantry.

For example at this writing, all fighting has been on
our terrain; they knew our generals we didn't know theirs; they had
all the press, funds, government control. We are reversing this. We
are fighting now on their ground. But we have a long way to go.

We will make it all the way providing we look on this in
terms of active battle and not as a "if we are saintly good we will
win." The people who win wars have a saintly image but they win the
war by clever and forceful use of the rules of tactics, strategy and
battle.

Wars are composed of many battles.

Never treat a war like
a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.

HCO PL 16.2.69 IIReiss.
24.9.87

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The cold war is a war. The West is losing it because it is fighting
by other rules than the rules of war. We mustn't lose it.

L. RON HUBBARDFounder

Adopted as officialChurch policy
byCHURCH OF
SCIENTOLOGYINTERNATIONAL

LRH:CSI:jk.ja

"The only answers would seem to be the permanent quarantine of
such persons from society to avoid the contagion of their insanities
and the general turbulence which they bring into any order."

— L. Ron HubbardScience of
Survival

"The [SP's] dream is a society wherein the criminal may do
anything he pleases without any faintest restraint."